No masks allowed: stores turn customers away in US culture war

[Ms. Toad]

60. What I am reacting to is the notion that they deserve the karma they get,

that it mainly hits them, Trump is shooting himself in the foot by opening the church doors. That it is just fine - because they are only hurting themselves.

That is, in the literal sense, ignorant of how this disease works. We need to stop promoting the idea that it is OK because the good/smart/progressive folks won't be impacted.

What we do is to continue to counter nonsense among progressives like the above that suggests we can let them be infected and not be harmed ourselves. We talk to friends/relatives/etc. to try to pound it through their thick skulls that they need to start caring about everyone else and, if they are engaging in risky behavior they need to self-isolate after each such enggement, we call/email/write the governor and health departments to demand they revert to safer policies, and we report entities or individuals who are violating what few orders there are left.

But most of all, we stop promoting the dangerous idea that they are only hurting themselves.